CVE-2014-9421

CVE Details

Release Date:

2015-02-03

Description

A double-free flaw was found in the way MIT Kerberos handled invalid External Data Representation (XDR) data. An authenticated user could use this flaw to crash the MIT Kerberos administration server (kadmind), or other applications using Kerberos libraries, using specially crafted XDR packets.

See more information about CVE-2014-9421 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	6.5	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	Requires single instance	Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	Partial	Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 6 (krb5)	ELSA-2015-0794	2015-04-09
Oracle Linux version 7 (krb5)	ELSA-2015-0439	2015-03-11
Oracle VM version 3.3 (krb5)	OVMSA-2015-0054	2015-04-09

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